Robin Morgan Quotes (25 Quotes)

I am an artist and a political being as well.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

I feel like I've gotten away from God-knows-what, ... but I feel safe now. I like the treatment I'm getting here. The treatment I'm getting here is much better than I was getting when I was there from the police officers and stuff.

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

We're not inherently anything but human.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

I'm scared. If it happened this time, it can happen again. That's my child in there.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

We are the women men warned us about.

Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit.